Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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